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by brent_noorda 13y ago
No offense taken. I wasn't sure it was a new idea, just one that I had trouble finding demonstrated anywhere. I couldn't find any simple web site demonstrating just this one single idea, separated from a lot of other issues, so I
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
That was a problem in the meteor hosting sites number of free emails per day, which broke quickly after this went high on HN. I've patched the meteor code to fix that issue.
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
No, it's not better than a link that logs you in automatically, just different. I don't think a 5-digit code is hard to remember for a few seconds, so I like this one. Sometimes the auto-links bother me because they might open a d
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Show HN: No More Passwords, Just Email(nomorepasswordsjustemail.meteor.com)
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
I hope the FDA forces 23andMe to take back their results that I'm getting Alzheimer's. Unless they already have. I forget.
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
Top 7 reasons for why Google Drive document sharing remains broken for so very long: 7 Google only thinks in terms of very large numbers, starting at a billion. If you were to share a billion documents, and those billion documents appeared
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
Logical fallacies? No. I take my logical fallacies very seriously. But factual fallacies? Perhaps, since it is based on some assumptions and guesses.
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
Good point. I hear an SF medalion can go for 300K.
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
Me: Cancel my TV service. I'm going to watch TV over the internet. Comcast: OK... Done. We'll miss you as a Comcast customer. Will there be anything else? Me: Yes. Please sign me up for internet service. I'm going to watch TV
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
At $10/hour expenses (your estimate) and $26/hour income (the original article's estimate) the Lyft driver is now netting $16/hour.
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
Nice feedback on my blog post, y'all. Thanks. Estimating exactly how much a driver receives from Lyft, versus that driver's expenses, is really difficult. So I took some shortcuts with easily searchable published data and ended up
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
Given what the drivers and passengers put into it, it does seem that Lyft's 20% cut seems high - but that 20% is also what justifies backing from the investors. If so, then there's room for a service doing the same brokerage deal
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
Lyft drivers could surely benefit from the tax deductions as well. I assume they report their Lyft payments to the IRS? This complicates the "how much they earn" formula further.
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
Maintaining 30 mph in a dense city, such as downtown SF is probably high (although then enough time is spent idling that my costs-per-mile estimate becomes too low). Fair point. I pulled the 30 mph out of someone else's guess in the AM
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
Any moment I expect to hear that Google has hired Henry Winkler to jump this thing in a leather coat.
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
I would love it if they eliminated this one step: * The files are served off of a basic Node server... By eliminating that they would truly achieve their goal to get rid of "Mucking around in backend code". They're alr
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
I love it. Fantastic for multiple reasons. 1) I can never remember the "intuitive" keyboard combinations to do this on my mac, but I can remember "easyprintscreen" 2) Useful. I can capture my screen, draw on it, highligh
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
Agreed. Instead of "I Failed a Twitter Interview" you could have just as well called this "Twitter Failed an Interview with Me." There's no telling why Twitter didn't make the job offer, but it's probably
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
That must me the Cmm we did in the early 90s. That engine became the basis for (probably) most JavaScript uses up until 10 years ago. I wrote too much about it here: http://www.brent-noorda.com/nombas/history/Histo
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
I hadn't thought about the indexing problem. So I moved all my pages to github.io, which google does index. Thanks.
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
I'm totally confused (once again something on HN makes me feel like an idiot). Doesn't Dropbox already give everyone free hosting? Dropbox has been hosting my website, on their dime, for quite a while already ( http://dl
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
Yes
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
Toyier: http://toy-piano.meteor.com
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
yes with Brunelleschi's lead (but he still needs a big team), but since Buffet only outperforms by about 15% I wouldn't call that "dramatic" in the context of your post. As for Jordan, I suspect five of me could beat one
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
Nice essay, but backed by these horrible examples: * a group of mediocre architects could have built a better dome in Florence than Brunelleschi * a group of mediocre stock pickers could have outperformed Buffett * a group of mediocre desig
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
To be blunt and rude and so on: maybe you're doing something that is turning the potential employers off. Maybe you just interview poorly and have no idea what you're doing wrong. Maybe you forgot to look up "big O" befo
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
You're right. Those things are death traps, accidents just waiting to happen. And by "those things" I mean "cars".
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
really useful, quick to set up, nice console, and a lot easier than setting up port forwarding and dyndns. Thanks for an immediately useful tool! P.S. I hope you're not retaining all the data that goes through your server. You don&#x27
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
Alternative adventure idea: Instead of travelling the world for a year, spend that year travelling within 50 miles of your home (or, if you're starting in Silicon Valley, like this author, anywhere that Bart reaches). Get to know the
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
BazQux Reader http://bazqux.com/

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